The cruise ship captain under fire for abandoning his vessel while thousands of passengers scrambled for rescue has reportedly come up with an explanation for his flight - he accidentally tripped and fell into a lifeboat:

Capt. Francesco Schettino stated: "I didn't even have a life jacket because I had given it to one of the passengers. I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60 to 70 degree angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats. That's how I found myself in the lifeboat."

With all this technology and relative "safety", these ship captains have become very lazy and cannot simply compare to airline pilots (unfortunately, who have become fairly lazy themselves, but not to the point of these ship captains)

Hungarian Conmen Caught! Trio of Hungarian fraudsters arrested after they 'tried to use Costa Concordia disaster to fake death of woman'

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Three alleged fraudsters have been caught after using the Costa Concordia disaster to try and fake the death of a woman.
Police in Hungary arrested the trio after New York lawyer Peter Ronai detected the scam as he represented the six Hungarian survivors from the disaster.
The attempted fraud was spotted when Ronai, who was in Budapest, was asked to take on a seventh case from the disaster.

just wonder why "Twelve Germans are missing from the huge cruise liner"

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Of the thousands of passengers from more than 60 countries, 566 were Germans. Five people are known to be missing from Hesse, as well as two from each of Berlin, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia and one from Bavaria